It looks like the implementation of ccnorm doesn't properly map '¡' to i. Special:AbuseLog/36337996 is currently shown as not a match. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 12:53, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
… if you’d let us turn this link blue you wouldn’t need to ask in the first place! :Pfirefly ( t · c ) 21:04, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Pick me, pick me, pick me, to help turn that blue. Also I feel like I have more to say than I did when we last discussed this 3 years ago about the concern you expressed at the time. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 21:08, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to selectively interpet your "thanks" to my edit about having more to say as an OK to email you those thoughts. So you've got mail. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 23:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It was bit more of a "I'll let you know when I'm ready, but it seems rude for me to leave a complement totally unacknowledged". I have read your email, though, and I'll try to reply soon. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:01, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I just wanted to stop by: it will be great to have you as an admin. Your technical experience is one of the best we have on this site right now. I know that this has probably been said many times by many others, and this is ultimately your decision, but you have my support. 0xDeadbeef→∞ (talk to me) 03:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
That Simpsonish filter...
...this edit slipped by. I don't know how to construct filters but seems like Sn**dville, TN would be ripe for exploitation by these SPAs. And if I don't get a chance before Christmas & New Years...Happy Holidays. And I appreciate all you do around here. Shearonink (talk) 01:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia, here's hoping your holiday time is wonderful and - especially -
that the New Year will be an improvement on the old. CHEERS!
Share these holiday wishes by adding {{subst:User:Shearonink/Holiday}} to your friends' talk pages.
(Sent: 14:46, 22 December 2023 (UTC))Shearonink (talk) 14:46, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, Suffusion of Yellow. Please check your email; you've got mail! It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.DannyS712 (talk) 00:49, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
/CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
/HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
I have 1,279 things on my mind today so I'll mention this before I forget. Could you look at this guy's article? I'm on Discord. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 22:37, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Would it be possible to do something similar as a new thing focused on administrator talk pages? I'm not sure about the best actions to take, but it seems like a strong indicator for initial edits. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 00:05, 30 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Might be worth a try. I'll email you in a day or two. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:25, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've restored that filter (with some modifications); that targets a very active LTA who edits across several large broad ranges. There should be limited collateral because of the AND condition on those ranges. I'm not on the mailing list, so I'm not sure what concern you are talking about. OhNoitsJamieTalk 17:56, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ohnoitsjamie: The concern EggRoll97 raised on the mailing list was fixed with Special:AbuseFilter/history/1242/diff/prev/30471. But I'd feel more comfortable without so many common words there; that regex still matches about 500,000 titles. (Protip: If Special:Search times out when looking for page titles, just download the whole list; it's only about only about 300 MB). Certainly, your latest update reduces the FPs quite a bit, but best to keep an eye on this. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 21:16, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not in any way that I know of. AFAIK the best that's publicly available is the "Of the last X actions, this filter has matched..." at the top of each filter page, which isn't all that helpful because it only shows the average, not the worst case. Users with the right kind of logstash access (e.g. MusikAnimal) can view of log of "slow filters" but I don't know to what extent it's proactively monitored. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:11, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Improving filter 397
Hi Suffusion of Yellow. I noticed that filter 397 was matching on a fair number of innocuous words and it also looked like some words could be added so I did some pretty extensive work to improve the filter and make it more maintainable. It could be made a bit faster by not computing the second ccnorm() result unless it's needed, but I want to see how fast the revised version is before I bother doing that. Please let me know if you have any concerns, questions, or feedback. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:07, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I wouldn't worry about performance (within reason) for non-mainspace filters, so long as you check the namespace before you do anything expensive. The majority of other filters will short-circuit at page_namespace == 0, so the total runtime will be low. One thing about 397 (hist·log) is that it almost always overlaps with 803 (hist·log). So all that work seems like a bit of a wasted effort. It might be worth looking for other filters to merge some of those regexes into. 384 (hist·log), 260 (hist·log) haven't had major additions in years. One more thing: if you're going go to through the trouble of commenting each part of the regex, might it make sense to use extended syntax:
That way there's no need to list every part twice. Lastly, I might have already plugged this to you, but I built User:Suffusion of Yellow/FilterDebugger for exactly this sort of work. It won't work if you're using any really tricky regex (possessive repeats, recursion, etc.) but should be good enough for this. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 00:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. It looks like the performance is the same as before because so few edits make it past the initial conditions (as expected).
I wasn't sure if free-spacing was supported, but that might come in handy. I'm hoping to revise several filters based on abuse expressions and 397 seemed like a relatively easy place to start. 384 looks like a good next stop and I suspect most if not all of the patterns can be shared.
I'll try to check out FilterDebugger sometime soon too. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 05:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Now that I'm an EFM, I realize that it would be helpful to have a script that linked each warning/disallow message name (like "abusefilter-disallowed-WPWP-extendedconfirmed" on Special:AbuseFilter/1258 for example) to the relevant message (MediaWiki:abusefilter-disallowed-WPWP-extendedconfirmed). Any chance you would be interested in writing such a script? If not I can take a crack at it but you seem to have cornered the market on edit filter-related scripts so I figured I'd ask. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 20:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DannyS712: I'm not really all that active right now; plus I have maybe 20 or so unfinished scripts that I'd rather get to first. If you want this done, go for it! Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 01:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Suffusion of Yellow, do you think the additions of {{Close paraphrasing}} could also be added to line 9? Thanks Nobody (talk) 14:34, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
Newly maintained scripts
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
Improve a script
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
Doǵu/Adiutor(pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
/afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
/ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
/redirect-helper(pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
/rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
Guycn2/UserInfoPopup(pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.
Edit-listings
Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.
Appearance-ricing
Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
Jonesey/common(pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
/AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
/Selective Rollback(pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
/flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
/randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.
Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!
Template:False positive other has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:55, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
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Done. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
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